INFANT MORTALITY AROUND THE WORLD

INFANT MORTALITY AROUND THE WORLD: Contributed by Amy McCoy

http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa02/main_pages/page_22.htm Check out this bar chart for infant mortality around the world.

In 1989, the US was ranked 21st and as of 1998, the US dropped to 28th in the world in the death rate of babies. This in a country where OBs are the primary source of care for pregnant women. Is this what you want to trust?
There is no bias here, just facts, though the causes of the death rates could be debated.
From the 1989 study, "for midwife-attended births, this mortality rate dropped to 2.1 deaths per 1,000 live births." (Gentle Birth Choices, Barbara Harper, RN)
The midwives had better success than any of the countries listed.
So wisdom would dictate that doctors are doing something *very* wrong and the majority of the population doesn't know or doesn't care.
Henci Goer's books will give you a comprehensive analysis of what is being done to harm women and babies during labor/bith.

Amy, frankly speaking to a lady wanting concerns of maternity matters to be "neutral" not making a decision from research on right vs wrong:

"Pardon my frankness, but you seem to be very biased yourself and unwilling to see any other side than what you already have set in your mind. I am having a hard time understanding why you want to hold so fast to the medical establishment.
OBs have their place and can and do save the babies who need them, but in too many cases, it is *their* intervention that is the problem. Go to www.birthlove.com and read some hospital birth stories or join the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BirthRage/ group and hear their stories firsthand.

I think if you were to research these stories, you would see some alarming correlations..."

Amy McCoy